After Effects (Beta)

Can't I use any other layer like a comp or mov or solid or shape layer as the source for envirement light? Right now it only supports .hdr layer.

Hello folks! I'm using the After Effects Beta 24.4.0 Build 40, and it's very stable to me. But like a week ago, some files that usually would open normally double clicking them, now isn't working properly.  Some files stuck loading (98%, 99%) and freezes my after effects. Different files, from different projects. And I've noticed that the same problem happen in the normal after effects version. I can open using the CMD + O option to search and open the file or trying to rename it. But I think something is going on to cause this stuff (IDK).  Thank you! 

hello, i might've found a bug that makes multiple 3rd party scripts unusable. I've found the issue with a script that lets me interpolate short clips and automatically replace them in my timeline. The script has 3 tabs of which the most important one - the settings tab - is just blank on the new beta UI. Ive got 3 pictures to make things more clear. This 1st picture shows the normal panel of the script (Ae beta 2024-03-26)A very basic script (the 2nd tab works too). This is how the script looks after clicking on the settings panel (Ae beta 2024-03-26): As you can see, its just fully blank. No respond on any clicking or anything, just empty. And this is how its supposed to look like (Ae stable 24.2.1)This settings tab has got even more stuff as you scroll down the panel.I tried out multiple different settings in my preferences but it really just doesnt seem to work. Hope this can be fixed, i love the new UI and the performance with it.   

Hey! Congratulations on Multi-Frame rendering! This is wonderful.I've been trying to use it with a project file I've been recently working on and rendering is stuck at 0%.Disabling the feature renders just fine. Trying to render a new project with some shape layers worked fine.I can share the project file in private if needed. Thanks so much for your hard work!  

We are very pleased to announce that a version of After Effects which runs natively on Apple silicon is now available for beta testing. Starting today in build 22.1.1.9, After Effects (Beta) will run natively on Macs that use the Apple M1 family of processors. You are invited to test it out and please let us know if anything isn't working as you expect. Please also try it out together with the latest Betas of Premiere Pro and Media Encoder. We are looking forward to hearing your feedback!     This first version of After Effects (Beta) for Apple silicon contains all the core functionality of the app, including nearly all native effects, all layer types, Roto Brush 2, Draft 3D, and, of course, Multi-Frame Rendering. After Effects has greatly benefited from the work done to bring Premiere Pro to Apple silicon, which included our team porting AE's render pipeline to support Motion Graphics Templates. Since After Effects and Premiere Pro share components for many media formats, y

A   message was put up saying this problem was fixed in the nlatest release, but I just ran it   and it suddenly  upped  and forced me to save my  work before it closed down all by itself. So, not fixed I am afraid.  I havve  just downloaded the current beta to see if that misbehaves in a similar way ?

The bounding box of a 3d object is visible in the rendered video if the object is not moving.

Even when you save a copy you can't quit AE Beta. 

This snippet should be self-explanatory 😉var win = new Window("palette", "test"); win.txt = win.add('statictext', undefined, "Hello World!"); win.layout.resize(); // This should change the txt color // It works in non-beta var g = win.txt.graphics; var color = [1,0,0,1]; // RED! var textPen = g.newPen( g.PenType.SOLID_COLOR, color, 1 ); g.foregroundColor = textPen; win.show(); It works correctly in the latest release, but not in the Beta with the new UI.There's no error, it just doesn't change the color.

Pretty simple one this - it would save a lot of time when exporting, as well as reduce the chances of mis-named files, at least in my workflow. I'd suggest adding a checkbox to the MOGRT export dialog with the option of 'MOGRT name from Comp Name' or similar. The benefits would be to simplify the export process, as it's easy to forget to update the comp name in a second place (the Essential Graphics panel as well as the actual Comp name). Version control is really important for some of the projects I work on, so having the output file reflect the Comp name is a high priority for me. Also, if any of the AEP to MOGRT script functionality could be added that would be super-useful (highest on the list would be export multiple MOGRTs at once - this would be especially useful when working on brand toolkits).

Plugin / Script panels buttons are glitchy a bit in the newest beta.It's like round bevels and light grey colour is enforced on the buttons.The picture below: left: AE 2024, right: AE Beta 

When you change the name of any element in the Project window (folder, file, composition, ...) it automatically slides to the very bottom of the window. This is counterproductive and requires scrolling back to the element with changed name. I'm not sure if it's a glitch or?Please see the the weird behaviour in the following video:https://streamable.com/cu2whs

Steps to reproduce:    1. After tracking with AE's native point tracker, press the grave/tilde key with mouse over the timeline panel to maximize it    2. Turn off animation for one of the keyframed tracking parameters or paste keyframes from one tracker's  parameters to another. Result: Timeline panel pops back down to its normal sizeExpected: I can work in the expanded view System info    Application: After Effects (Beta) v24.4.0.23    OS: Windows v10.0.19045, RAM: 31.85 GB GB, CPUs (logical): 12

Video of the issue

While Ilustrator and Photoshop betas are there, AE is missing under "Pre-release" and under "Apps" tabs. Any suggestions how to find it?OS Win, there are AE23 and AE24 installed at the system.Thanks!

Usually when in an active composition, you'd see that composition highlighted with a box, but now I just see the flow and feel very unsure of which composition I'm in. I use this to navigate through precomps so it must be retained from the pre-spectrum design update. Thanks

May also be present in release version haven't checked.Swapping colors on the Gradient Ramp fx clamps any value above/below 0-1.0 float losing the origianl value. Tested in 24.4.0 build 16.

Pop up window showed up never to go away. When pressing Esc key the window flicker but stayed on the screen until crashed and closed AE.

I'm using (an older version of) Trapcode Particular to create some stars forming a logo. I've coloured the particles from a gradient ramp with completely normal (not over 1,1,1) colours, which range from a light cyan to white - no yellow at all. Weirdly, one clump of particles (I have no other effects on the layer other than Particular) renders as yellow, and if I look at its RGB values, the blue is "nan", which I've never seen before. My project is 32 bit, set to "Adobe Color Managed" (I also tried some of the OCIO options, but it made no difference to the Area of Weirdness):If I drop the comp into my PPro timeline, the Area of Weirdness appears as a black dot:If I change the project to 8bpc, the issue goes away. But my glows and sparkles aren't as nice. Odd.

After working for usually 15-20 minutes on a project in the Beta, it suddenly hangs for no apparent reason, even if I am not actually doing anything at that point in time, and that's it, the only way out  is via Task Manager and the big red switch, loosing any work you may not have saved in the interim period. There is no apparent pattern as to what I may have been doing immediately before, but just maybe it has to do with resizing a control, typically a Shape, which does seem to fit  my occurences quite well ?. W10 Pro, 16Gb Ram, I7 processor, GTX 980 GPU. 

glb models in my composition view appears black/invisible Steps to reproduce:  Drag glb file from the file explorer into After Effects 'Project' window Drag glb file from the Project tab to 'Create a new composition' button at the bottom of the 'Project' window 'Model Settings' window pops up: click 'OK'     Result: 3D model appears invisible in composition view    Expected: Visible 3D model in composition view  This happens with all glb files. They work fine in other programs. System info    Application: After Effects (Beta) v24.0.0.40    OS: Windows v10.0.19045, RAM: 13,93 GB GB, CPUs (logical): 8

Whenever I double click a text layer to edit, it just makes the same "popping" sound you hear whenever a some function can't be executed. I don't have this issue with non-beta version

I notice that all the match names for the renderers seem to have changed in the latest build (not sure exactly which build, but recently). Is that intentional? If so, it's really bad news for some of us that have products in the field that depend on the previoius names. Will there be some warning before this change goes into a general release?

I'm running the latest version of Ae Beta.  GLB Imports fine into Blender. Keep getting Blue Box with Send to Ae feature in Painter.  Send to Ae configuration shown in screenshot.

I'm using AE Beta 24.2.0x66.I'm currently waiting for some tracking to complete on a ~30sec clip. The track points have gone way off, but there's no way to cancel the tracking, regardless of what I press/click. Clicking the 'stop' icon in the Tracker panel does nothing, hitting Esc does nothing...AE is completely unresponsive, but is continuing to do the track (even though the track points are totally useless).